Huskers Fall in Tough Match to Michigan

By NU Athletic Communications

| 04/14/2012

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The No. 68 Nebraska men’s tennis team dropped the first of its two weekend matches on Saturday afternoon, as the No. 22 Michigan Wolverines were victorious, 4-3. The disappointing loss drops the Huskers to 10-11 on the year and 3-5 in Big Ten action. Michigan improves to 14-5 and 7-1 in conference action.

The Huskers started off the match losing a tough doubles point when it came down to court No. 2.

The Huskers had Andre Stenger and Robert Schluze on court No. 2 and the duo had match point against Michigan’s Barrett Franks and Alex Buzzi. However, Nebraska’s team couldn’t capitalize and Michigan’s squad came back to win the match, 9-8 (9), thus giving the Wolverines the doubles point that would eventually decide the match.

Nebraska’s Stenger picked up another point for the Huskers on court No. 3 when he was victorious over UM’s Michael Zhu, 6-3, 6-2. Michigan’s Franks was victorious on court No. 4 when he downed NU’s Schulze, 6-1, 6-1.